Center for Research and Communication
| Established | 1967 |
|---|---|
| Founders | Bernardo M. Villegas Jesus Estanislao |
| Purpose | Think tank |
| Location | |
| Affiliations | University of Asia and the Pacific |
The Center for Research and Communication (CRC) is a consultancy firm and think tank in the Philippines best known for being one of the earliest Philippine think-tanks, with expertise in business, economics, international relations, and education,: 80 as well as more recently food and agribusiness, energy, data science, analytics, and transportation and logistics,
Associated with the University of Asia and the Pacific, which evolved in the 1990s out of the educational initiatives it had undertaken since its inception, many of its consultants have held government policy-making posts, or been tapped to advise the Philippine government on economic policy while also teaching at the university.
It was very influential in the 1970s, when it was one of the few institutions publishing foundational textbooks on economics through its subsidiary, sinag-tala publishers.The graduate degree programs it established in 1989 were later spun off to become the University of Asia and the Pacific in 1995, with many CRC consultants concurrently handling academic duties as professors.